Discussion: deprecation of brand icons

[awgv]

You may find this information useful, and I also feel like this decision may alleviate some pressure from the community. Templarian/MaterialDesign—the community-driven extension for Google’s Material icons—came to a decision roughly a year ago to deprecate all brand icons. Here’s why (source):

[...] brand and logo icons are simply not Material. Additionally, we have had issues dealing with logos that don't work well in a single color, don't fit in a distinguishable way within a 24x24dp artboard, or are just very obscure logos to begin with. It is very easy to say that we do not feel that we have served this niche of icons well.

Needless to say, it’s the same pattern for Feather: there’s just no way to include all requested logos and maintain the same level of quality for brand icons drawn in the style of Feather; logos have their own style (well, duh), and perhaps, there is no need to mix the two for the sake of aesthetic consistency.

simple-icons/simple-icons repository already covers everything, uses SVG and the same 24x24 viewBox, so it could be a great replacement for people that need brand icons.

What do you think? Please respond with thumbs up/down to this post and comment if you have something else to add.

[colebemis]

I totally agree with this. I wrote something similar in a recent tweet:

We have GitHub issues for all those icons but don't expect them anytime soon. Logos are really tough to make with Feather's constraints. Personally, I'd recommend using something like Simple Icons (https://simpleicons.org) for brand icons.

I don't know if it's necessary to deprecate all the current logo icons. But I think this is good justification for not adding more.